(verb) : com-mĕrĕo, ŭi, ĭtum, 2
* To merit fully, to deserve something; usu. in a bad sense.
* Prop.: interrogabatur reus, quam quasi aestimationem commeruisse se maxime confiteretur,Cic. de Or. 1, 54, 232: poenam,Ov. Tr. 2, 4: numquam sciens commerui merito ut caperet odium illam mei,Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 4.
* Meton. (with culpam, etc.; antecedens pro consequenti; prop. to earn, acquire, bring to or upon one's self), to err in something, to commit an offence or crime, be guilty of, perpetrate (mostly ante-class.): noxiam,Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 56: aliquem Castigare pro conmeritā noxiā,id. Trin. 1, 1, 4: culpam in se,id. Merc. 4, 6, 10: quid ego de te conmerui mali?id. Aul. 4, 10, 5: neque te conmeruisse culpam,id. Capt. 2, 3, 43; so, culpam,Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 29: commerere in se aliquid mali,Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 59; cf.: quid commerui aut peccavi?Ter. And. 1, 1, 112; cf.: quid placidae commeruistis oves?Ov. F. 1, 362.

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